Deadline for Production of Project Gunrunner Documents Arrives
Today Mike Vanderboegh of the blog Sipsey Street Irregulars — who, along with David Cordea, broke the Project Gunrunner story — put up a post you need to bookmark: a collection of links to all letters written by Charles Grassley and Darrell Issa regarding this program.
There is one letter I would like to draw your attention to specifically: this letter from Issa to the Acting Director of BATFE, demanding the production of documents regarding Project Gunrunner. The part that makes this interesting: the deadline for production of the documents is 5:00 p.m., March 30, 2011. That is today. A few hours ago, actually.
Assuming that BATFE has given Issa the finger — as I very much expect they have — the next logical step is issuing subpoenas.
This is about to get interesting.
P.S. One more letter that is worth noting: this letter sent by Issa to Hillary Cllinton yesterday. The deadline is April 12. I bet Hillary gives Issa the finger too. Meaning, I would assume, more subpoenas.
Isn’t it nice to be in the majority?
P.P.S. Michelle Malkin knocked it out of the park on Hannity tonight discussing Project Gunrunner, and had a wonderful post and column about it here.
This story seems to be gaining steam but I have a feeling the Obama Administration will defy any subpoenas, just as it did in the Fort Hood/Hasan shooting. The Administration might cite the pending IG investigation as its excuse for noncompliance, but sooner or later won’t there be a Congressional hearing with testimony from ATF whistleblowers and others? I hope so and that it provides answers about what happened.
DRJ (fdd243) — 3/30/2011 @ 7:37 pmTransparency, it’s what’s for dinner!
daleyrocks (9b57b3) — 3/30/2011 @ 10:21 pmIt seems the only way subpoenas were honored in the NBP case was by people resigning from the Justice Dept.
AD-RtR/OS! (e05ee5) — 3/30/2011 @ 11:42 pmIf this is transparancy, the LaBrea Tar Pits provide the water for Crystal Geyser.
I expect the documents that are wanted will disappear, but perhaps they will turn up on a table in the Whitehouse in a couple of years. That worked before.
Machinist (b6f7da) — 3/30/2011 @ 11:43 pmHas anyone seen Sandy Berger?
Machinist (b6f7da) — 3/30/2011 @ 11:46 pmThe administration actually knows where the Mexican cartels get guns but lying to us about it makes them feel superior to all those bitter gun-clinging hicks.
SPQR (26be8b) — 3/31/2011 @ 7:40 am